The CIT acquired over 20 of the most cutting edge laboratories in the world. The
following are the labs dedicated to computer science and Software Engineering students.
Media Lab
The mission of the IRML is two-fold:
- Research: To foster cutting-edge research in Interactive Robots and Media, through
research projects run by faculty, instructors, visiting researchers, as well as students,
also with interdisciplinary, national, and international cooperation.
- Education: To provide an inspiring constructionist education environment for students,
covering multiple aspects of robotics, human-robot interaction, computer vision, animation,
language grounding, interactive media, and numerous other related fields and technologies.
Senior projects and IT-core projects are currently being supported, and special sessions
in courses as well as seminars are foreseen.
The IRML hosts various hardware and software such as:
- 2 HP XW6400 workstations,
- 1 Optiplex 9600,
- 3 nao robots,
- 3 lego mindstorms,
- 3 biolod kits,
- 1 Cube X 3D printer.
The PC and workstation in the lab are configured with the following software:
- MS Office 2010,
- Windows 8,
- MS Visual Studio,
- Python Canopy,
- R Language,
- MS Visual Studio 2010 Express, MS Visual Studio 2014,
- Google Chrome,
- Outlook, LabView.
Bioinformatics Lab
The Bioinformatics Laboratory is designed to prepare students to serve the computational
biology community in the UAE, especially in the areas of genomics and proteomics.
The lab provides students and researchers with access to software, and technical support
related to computational biology. Several Lab components are taught in the Bioinformatics
lab such as CSBP431, CSBP411, ITBP480 and ITBP481. The lab is equipped by the following
software/hardware:
- 10 Intel Windows-based PCs.
- HP Printer
- Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktops Software / windows
- SimBiology™
- Win4Lin Terminal Servers
Grid/Cloud Computing Lab
Grid/Cloud computing is one of the most exciting and promising directions in which
computation philosophy has shifted from the use of personal computer or individual
server to a grid/cloud of computers. Users of the grid/cloud are only concerned with
the computing services being asked for. The underlying details and how it is achieved
is hidden by a distributed grid/cloud computing infrastructure. The activities are
mainly focused on, but not limited to, teaching and research in the following domains:
High Performance Computing, Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, Distributed Computing,
Peer-to-Peer Computing, Distributed Data Mining, Distributed Ontology Mapping, Security
in Grid and Cloud computing, Web services and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and
ELearning. The lab is equipped by the following hardware/software:
Hardware:
- 100 computing nodes Quad Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHZ Model X5355.
- 2 login nodes of Dual/Quad Core Intel Xeon 2.93 GHZ Model X7350.
- 2 batch nodes of Dual/Quad Core Intel Xenon 3.16 GHZ Model X5460.
- 2 grid management nodes of Dual/Quad Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHZ Model X5355.
- 1 LDAP server of Dual/Quad Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHZ Model X5355.
- A total highly available Grid shared storage of 9600 GBytes.
- Infiniband connection.
Software:
- Sun N1 Grid Engine 6.1 media kit.
- Red Had Enterprise Linux for HPC Compute Nodes.
- Intel C++ Compiler Intel C++ Compiler Professional Edition for Linux.
- The shared storage servers are configured by Luster File System for high availability.
Robotics Lab
The Robotics lab lets the students design, build and program their own robots, in
a specially equipped laboratory. The lab feature state of the art equipment such as:
- Khepera II + Webots
- General I/O turret
- Linear vision turret
- Video turret color cameras
- Wireless analog video turret
- Radio turret
- Radio base station
- Gripper turret
- Intel Windows-based PCs
The Robotics lab is designed to allow students to integrate and/or apply the concepts
learned in classes such as Programming, Signal Processing, Image Processing/Computer
Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Wireless Communication & Security, and Embedded System
Design. Students will get first-hand experience of the “real world,” from robot design,
to social interaction, negotiation, group dynamics, cooperation, and competition.
Software Engineering Lab
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The Software Engineering Lab is equipped to enable students to practice the core principles
of software construction and maintenance which includes the fundamental software processes
and lifecycle, requirement analysis, software engineering methodologies and standard
notations, principals of software architecture and reuse, software quality frameworks
and validation, software development and maintenance environment. The lab contains
20 (Dell OptiPlex 960) workstations. The PCs in the lab are configured with the following software:
Internet Explorer, Microsoft Virtual PC 6.0.156.0. Microsoft Office 2010 Professional
Suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, , Publisher, Access, InfoPath Designer,
InfoPath Filler, OneNote and share-Point Workspace. For All machines, the Virtual
PC “WindowsXPVM” is configured with the following software: IBM Rational Software
Architect Standard Edition, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Netbeans
IDE 6.9.1, and Adobe Reader 9. Lab components are taught in the lab such as SWEB319,
SWEB423, SWEB401, ITBP480 and ITBP481.
UNIX Labs
These two Sun OS environment Workstations running the Solaris Operating Environment
(a.k.a. Sun‘s version of Unix) used for instruction of UNIX-based courses. Besides
the exposure to UNIX-like environments and commands, students also learn in these
labs the distributed systems issues inherent to UNIX operating system and may simulate
parallel processing across the network of workstations available in these labs, particularly
as the workstations are sitting on a dedicated VLAN.
General Labs
The two general computing labs are equipped with 15 Intel Windows-based PCs. The following
software packages are installed on each machine:
- Microsoft Windows Operating System
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Microsoft Visual Studio Suite
- IBM SPSS Software
- Minitab Statistical Software
- MathWorks MATLAB Multi-Paradigm Numerical Computing Software
- Eclipse & NetBeans IDE Programming Tools
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